I don't mind talking about Windows, Apple or Linux, but when someone says Linux is just for a "toast"… makes me think of how many devices runs Linux and not only toasters which I'm sure they also do if there is some screen display or Wi-Fi features.

So I reply to them if they talk about it, yeah.

Not the same amount of people will do that, if they learn that any app is installed via the same app, pamac or whatever Ubuntu has to install those packages. It's harder for them to look outside that app and if they do, probably, and I hope they will get into the community forums. Where they can get to know how that works with transparency, something missing on Windows.

But yeah, virus and scams exists everywhere, just that Linux users don't need to download a .exe or .msi to install anything by default, as far as I know on people around me, they don't know winget exist, even the most gamer.

But they frame it as going online and downloading from a website; you can do that on either OS even though it’s not something you should ever do. It’s just user error

I don't think those regular users uses the terminal to install their apps. winget is 3 years old… and is much easier and faster to just run sudo pacman -Syu or sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade (no via Windows updates that forces you to do stuff you don't want to). Many things changes… and the freedom that Linux gives to use what you like as you like is missing on Windows, starting with the Desktop Environment… KDE has many more features, faster and uses less RAM than any Windows.

Most regular users on Windows stills goes on "google.com" and search for their programs, and then things like this happens: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/

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You're funny xD, but it is already, just not for normal desktop users.

Yeah, Windows is easier because it don't have many distros and when you buy a new PC it already comes with it (no need to boot a Live ISO to install from 0) so that helps people to get started with their first OS, a Windows, so that's why most people know how to use Windows.

You might want to read this awesome blog: https://duncanlock.net/blog/2022/04/06/using-windows-after-15-years-on-linux/

Hahaha, the problem is the things you don't know, not only on servers, on more devices that you ignore and skip just to make fun of it right now.

LOL Linux runs the world. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=mZXx5oErnIc
The problem was that it was not user-friendly, and you needed to know how to use it. Now things are changing and seems it can run games even faster.

They can track VPNs as Tor traces comparing the incoming and outgoing, making noise helps to make this more difficult for them.

What's better than thepiratebay?

I don't know exactly what's your problem, but I would like you to recommend using Jellyfin https://github.com/jellyfin

I have Plex lifetime plus, but I still prefer using Jellyfin…

I was a bit paranoid and wanted to make it not unique, I reached my goal but… then I got banned from multiple platforms because I was “suspicious”, or I don’t know how to say it… and the faking data takes a lot of my browser load time…

Don’t listen to people that says Brave browser is fantastic… they can still track you.

I use the default Firefox browser, then I searched info to remove the tracking things built in on about:config and then I installed an open source add-on to fake everything, but I removed this add-on because it breaks websites and I get banned a lot.

Now I just use Firefox containers to keep cookies I care in separated containers, a cookie/data cleaner but keeps the logged sessions on the selected containers (sometimes Google don’t allow me to log in again because they can’t validate it’s me, so I need to keep at least one cookie session in case that happens again), and a proxy working with containers, so a container called “social” will go through Tor, so my ISP can’t know my likes or politic thoughts.

You can customize it pretty much as you want, if you want me to search what add-ons I use and used to make this possible I could if you were really interested. I just want to say, careful getting banned for being suspicious.

In summary, you can find open source tools/add-ons to do it, but you will have a lot of issues to use it for daily tasks, so maybe just try to find a balance.

I wish I knew to manage Emacs as good as you, cool.